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		m1keil on Aug 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation what's SMAP? can't find info anywhere. edit: ok, found, cpu security feature. so it's possible this issue is mitigated on newer CPUs?

qwertyoruiop on Aug 17, 2015 [–]

well, this bug is a null pointer deference. smap is like -no_shared_cr3, but without the performance loss.

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